From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 20:20:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2916616A4E5 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:20:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9547243D5A for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:20:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:20:22 -0400 id 00056405.44EA1586.00007016 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 21 Aug 2006 16:13:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:20:22 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Subhro Message-Id: <20060821162022.65a0b0fd.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <44EA12C6.2030902@gmail.com> References: <44EA12C6.2030902@gmail.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot over network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:20:26 -0000 In response to Subhro : > Hello Folks, > > I was just wondering if this can be done. > > I would like to have a FreeBSD server which would supply a few > workstations connected over the network a boot image. The catch is the > boot image has to be a Ubuntu Linux image. I have a fresh installed > FreeBSD box as well as a working Ubuntu box which boots locally. All the > systems in question has network boot enabled NICs. Can the above setup > be done? Any pointers would be welcome. Yes. It can be done. It's a matter of enabling DHCP and TFTP and configuring each with the correct parameters. FreeBSD is capable of being an NFS/TFTP server and serving out any netboot image that will work with DHCP. Don't have any links to recommend off the top of my head, but I would expect a little google searching should turn some stuff up. You don't really need FreeBSD-specific instructions, just adjust when the config files are in different places. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.